Address: Mevo Hakatros 4,

   Maale Adumim, Israel 98390

Telephone/fax: (02) 5352517 (home);

   (02) 5880255 (office)

e-mail: msladino@mscc.huji.ac.il,

   david.bunis@gmail.com

homepage: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msladino

Birth date: 3 June 1952

Place of birth: United States of America

Year of immigration: 1980

Married, 4 children

Citizenship: Israeli/United States

City College of CUNY

New York, New York                       

B.A., magna cum laude, 1973

Major: Linguistics

Course of study: Linguistics; Spanish language, literature and grammar; Hebrew language; Yiddish language

Columbia University

New York, New York

M.A., 1975

Major field: Linguistics

Thesis: Toward a Linguistic and Cultural Geography of Judezmo

Columbia University

New York, New York

M.Phil., 1977

Major field: Linguistics

Columbia University

New York, New York

Ph.D., 1981

Major field: Linguistics

Special fields: Judezmo (Ladino) linguistics, Yiddish

   linguistics, Spanish linguistics, general linguistics

Dissertation: A Phonological  and Morphological Analysis of the Hebrew and Aramaic Component of Judezmo

Dissertation advisor: Professor Marvin Herzog

1980

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Romance Studies and Center for Sephardic and Oriental Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Ladino Studies

1981

Teaching Associate at the Rank of Lecturer, Department of Romance Studies and Center for Sephardic and Oriental Jewish Studies, Ladino Studies

1982

Lecturer, Department of Romance Studies and Center for Sephardic and Oriental Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Ladino Studies

1985

Senior Lecturer, Department of Romance Studies and Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures (Department of Hebrew Language), Faculty of Humanities, Ladino Studies and Jewish Languages

1993

Associate Professor, Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures (Department of Hebrew Language), Faculty of Humanities, Ladino Studies and Jewish Languages

2006

Professor, Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures (Department of Hebrew Language), Faculty of Humanities, Ladino Studies and Jewish Languages

2000

Member, Steering Committee, Sixth International Conference, Misgav Yerushalayim

2000-2008

Member, Academic Committee on Jewish Language Research

2000-2008

Member, Council of the Institute of Jewish Studies

2000-2009

Referee, Doctoral Dissertations in Jewish Languages and Sephardic Studies

2003-2007

Member, Philological Committee

2008-2009

Member, Near East Committee

2006-2009

Chairman, Academic Committee, Misgav Yerushalayim

2008-2009

Member, Academic Committee, Expulsion and Forcible Conversion: An International Research Workshop, 11-15 January 2009, Hispania Judaica Center, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies

2009

Chief Editor, Proceedings of the Conference on Jewish Languages organized by Misgav Yerushalayim

2009-2011

Co-editor, Massorot: Studies in Jewish Languages and Language Traditions (in Hebrew), The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1977-78, 1979-80

Preceptor, Department of Linguistics, Columbia University

1979

Instructor, PT, Foreign Language Program, New York University School of Continuing Education

1980

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Spanish, University of Pennsylvania

1982-84

Visiting Lecturer, PT, Department of Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University, Ladino Studies

1986

Visiting Lecturer, Sephardic Studies Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Ladino Studies

1995-98

Visiting Lecturer, PT, Program in General Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Ladino Studies

2010

Fellow, Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

1972

Assistant, Great Yiddish Dictionary Project, City College of CUNY/YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

1974

Application Review Panelist, Youthgrants in the Humanities Program, National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, D.C.)

1989-2006

Member, Editorial Board, Hispanic Linguistics

1991-92

Member, Public Council Marking the Quinticentennial of the Expulsion of the Jews             from Spain and the Founding of the New World, Jerusalem

1995-2011

Referee in the field of Sephardic studies for papers considered for publication in the scholarly journals Mediterranean Language Review, Pe‘amim, Masorot, Meḥqere Yerušalayim Befolklor Yehudi, and for books and articles considered for publication by Ben-Zvi Institute, Ben-Gurion University Press, Haifa University Press, Carmel Press, National Authority for Ladino Culture, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

1997-2011

Advisor and lecturer, National Authority for Ladino, Jerusalem

1999-2007

Advisor, Ladino-Hebrew Dictionary Project, National Authority for Ladino, Jerusalem

2000

Member of Organizing Committee, Sixth International Congress of Misgav Yerushalayim, Hebrew University

2000-2005

Advisor, Ladino Programs, Israel Ministry of Education

2000-2001

Events in honor of the publication of Voices from Jewish Salonika organized at the Hebrew University (Misgav Yerushalayim); Bar-Ilan University; and Maale Adumim Township

2000-2011

Advisor, Israel Science Foundation

2000-2011

Advisor, Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University

2001

Keynote speaker (Cynthia Crews Memorial Lecture), Twelfth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies, University College, London, 24-26 June 2001

2001-2007

Founding Member of Advisory Board, and Member, Israel Association for the Study of Language and Culture, Tel-Aviv

2001-2011

Member, Public Council on Eastern Classical Music and Dance, Jerusalem

2002-2011

Member, International Advisory Board, Jewish Language Research Website (http://www.jewish-languages.org)

2003-2007

Member, Israel Linguistic Society

2003-2011

Member, Advisory Board, Sephardic House, New York

2004-2011

Advisor, Center for Ottoman Ladino Research, Istanbul

2004

Chief Judge, Toledano Prize Awards in Sephardic Studies, Jerusalem

2004-2011

Member, The Linguist List, Eastern Michigan University

2004-2011

Member, Academic Committee, M. D. Gaon Center for Ladino Studies, Ben-Gurion University

2006

Advisor, Swiss National Science Foundation

2007

Member, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute Award Committee

2008

Keynote Speaker, Judezmo Lexicology and Lexicography: International Conference, Institute for the History of German Jews, Hamburg, 7-9 September 2008

2008

Shelomo Morag Memorial Lecturer, Jewish Languages in Writing and Speech: Third International Conference of the Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 23-26 June 2008

2009-2011

Member, Editorial Board, El Prezente: Studies in Sephardic Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2009

Member, Publication Grants Review Board, Israel Science Foundation

2009

Member, Society for the Study of the Jews of Sefarad and the Sefaradi Diaspora, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem

2009-2013

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of the Sociology of Language

2010-2011

Member, Advisory Board, Estudios Sefardíes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid

2011

Member, Society of Israeli Hispanists, Jerusalem

1989-91

Memorial Foundation for Jewish culture, “Documenting the Oral Traditions of Judezmo-speaking Sephardim”

1993

American Academy For Jewish Research, “Hebrew-Aramaic Elements in Modern Judezmo”

1992/93, 1994/95

Federman Foundation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Hebrew-Aramaic Elements in Modern Judezmo”

1992/93, 1994/95

Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Hebrew-Aramaic Elements in Modern Judezmo”

1995

Institute for Research on Saloniki Jewry, Tel-Aviv, “Topics in Judezmo Grammar”

1995, 1997

Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “An Introduction to Judezmo Grammar”

1997

AMOS Foundation, Israel President’s House, “An Introduction to Judezmo Grammar” 

1996-99

Israel Science Foundation, “Turkish component in Modern Judezmo”

1999

Israel National Authority for Ladino, “Voices from Jewish Salonika”

1999

Ets Ahaim Foundation, Thessaloniki, “Voices from Jewish Salonika”

2000-2001

Israel National Authority for Ladino, “Ottoman Elements in Yugoslavian Judezmo”

2002

Federman Foundation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Judezmo in Sephardic Rabbinical Sources”

2003

Misgav Yerushalayim, “Turkish-Jewish Linguistic Interaction in the Ottoman Empire” 

2003-2007

Israel Science Foundation, “Turkish-Jewish Linguistic Interaction in the Ottoman Empire” 

2009

2010

Research Fellowship, Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2011

Swiss Science Foundation, travel and study grant, “The German Component in Yugoslavian Judezmo”, University of Basel, June 2011

2011

Israel Science Foundation, “Spoken Judezmo in Written Judezmo: Judezmo Conversational Language in Written Texts (16-20th Centuries)”

2006

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Prize for Research on Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem

2000-2001

2001-2002

2005-2006

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

Ladino and Structural Linguistics (B.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino (M.A.)

Ladino in Salonika, the Jewish Gem of the Aegean (M.A.)

Ladino Linguistics (B.A)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino: Problems in Grammar; Textual Analysis (M.A.)

 Ladino (Judeo-Spanish): A Structural History of the Language (B.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino: Explication of texts; Topics in Grammar (M.A.)

Ladino in its Social and Literary Diversity (M.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino: Problems in Grammar; Textual Analysis (M.A.)

Ladino and the Controversies Surrounding It (M.A.)

Introductory Ladino: Essentials of Grammar and Lexicon; Analysis of texts (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino (M.A.)

Ladino: An Introduction to the Language and to the Culture of its

   Speakers (B.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino: The Popular Dialogue in literary works (M.A.)

Ladino and Yiddish: A Comparative Linguistic Analysis (M.A.)

New Directions in Ladino Research (M.A.)

Ladino: A Structural History of the Language (B.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Ladino in the Responsa Literature of the Ottoman Rabbis (M.A.)

Ladino: Linguistic Analysis of Folk and Humoristic Texts (M.A.)

Ladino and Turkish: Jewish-Turkish Linguistic Encounters in the

   Ottoman Empire (M.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Ladino and the Controversies Surrounding It (M.A.)

Advanced Ladino: Critical Reading of Historical Sources; Analysis of Autobiographical Writings (M.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Ladino As a Mirror of the Sephardic Jewish Experience in the East (B.A.)

Advanced Ladino: Critical Reading of Historical Sources; Linguistic Analysis of Folk and Humoristic Texts

The Hebrew Traditions of Ladino Speakers (M.A.)

Introductory Ladino (B.A.)

Ladino As a Jewish Language, Ladino as a Balkan Language (B. A.)

Ladino in the Responsa Literature of the Ottoman Rabbis (M. A.)

Advanced Ladino: Topics in the Structure of the Language (M. A.)

New Directions in Ladino Research (M. A.)

[Fall semester: on sabbatical]

Introductory Ladino: Grammatical Principles (B.A.)

Introductory Ladino: Analysis of Modern Literary Texts (B.A.)